Watch for Upcoming Events
- April 20 and 27, 2024: District New Member Development Workshops
We are planning to hold this program in four locations around our district on two different dates and to have a virtual ZOOM option as well. We hope that each local unit’s leadership team will plan to have representatives at one of these events. We will walk through the“Welcoming Event Toolkit” and give your leadership team time to break out and discuss the various components and how you might use them, who you would like to invite to an event and how you can help integrate new members into your group following an event.This FREE half day gathering will be a great focused time for you to dream about increasing your membership and how to create an event that will make each attendee feel welcome and wanted. Mark your calendars and plan to join us!
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- Crossroads UMC in Grand Junction, CO: April 20 from 9:00 to Noon (will also be available via Zoom)
- Glenwood Springs First UMC in Glenwood Springs, CO: April 20 from 9:00 to Noon
- Tongan UMC in West Valley, UT: April 20 from 9:00 to Noon
- Montrose First UMC in Montrose, CO: April 27 from 9:00 to Noon
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- May 9-11, 2024: Western Jurisdiction UWFaith Quadrennial Event
Book Discussions 7:00pm on the second Thursday of each month via ZOOM
2024 Reading Program
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Thursday, May 2, 2024** The Seed Keeper: A Novel by Diane Wilson **please note that this month’s book discussion is taking place on the 1st Thursday of the month**
Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakhóta people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn’t return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato—where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies they’ve inherited.
On a winter’s day many years later, Rosalie returns to her childhood home. A widow and mother, she has spent the previous two decades on her white husband’s farm, finding solace in her garden even as the farm is threatened first by drought and then by a predatory chemical company. Now, grieving, Rosalie begins to confront the past, on a search for family, identity, and a community where she can finally belong. In the process, she learns what it means to be descended from women with souls of iron—women who have protected their families, their traditions, and a precious cache of seeds through generations of hardship and loss, through war and the insidious trauma of boarding schools.
Weaving together the voices of four indelible women, The Seed Keeper is a beautifully told story of reawakening, of remembering our original relationship to the seeds and, through them, to our ancestors.
Nurturing for Community (2024)
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was held on September 16 – 17, 2022
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Zoom Annual Gathering – October 3, 2020
You and all members of United Methodist Women are invited to the Annual Celebration of the Utah/Western Colorado District to be held Saturday – October 3rd. This is your official CALL to our ZOOM meeting. The theme for this event is: “Living into Wisdom” Keynote Speaker: Mary Ann Tabor, Conference Coordinator for Social Justice. A Grand ‘ol Tea Party we shall have! If you’d like to wear your finest tea party hat, we’d love to see them.
The schedule for the Annual Celebration includes topics such as: “Mindfulness”, prayer beads, “Hats Off to UMW” and a business meeting. Bring a sack lunch, a cup of tea and join us for some fun!
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The Call Part 7 – STANDING RULES 2019 BUDGET
Annual Meeting – Pagosa Springs – September 18-19, 2015: